Excerpt from Beck Weather's Book Left for DeadBesides the moral dilemma of SELFISHNESS vs. SELFLESSNESS,​Remember the 12 Common Themes in Lit? Do you see any of these in Into Thin Air?1. The journey2. Man vs. Nature3. Overcoming Adversity4. Death is part of the life cycle5. Sacrifice​Chapter 16-19 ReviewChapter 16-19 slides in This PreziAssignment: Read Chapters 20, 21 & Epilogue pp. 272-301==========================================Friday 2/23Review with Kahoot Chapters 7-9​​Go over discussion questions for Chapters 10-12Kahoot Chapters 10-12Take Quiz over Chapters 7-12Assignment for Tuesday: Read Chapters 13-15 pp. 181-223

Friday 2/9View 22 minutes of Everest movieGo over Chapters 1-3 questions & answers, fill in A-Z grid​Kahoot 1-3Assign: Chapters 4-8 to pg. 88==========================================Wednesday 2/7Collect webquest. Discuss short story about SherpasView: Sherpa Documentary After Deadliest Year on Everest (23:16)Reading calendar and outlines​View Everest through 20:50​Read: Chapters 1-3. Fill in Chapter 1-6 A-Z chart as you read!==========================================Monday 2/5Into Thin Air was once called the definitive, personal account of the deadliest seasonin the history of Everest (1999). However, the novel can no longer be billed this way becauseApril 2014 was the deadliest season in the history of Everest!

On assignment for Outside magazine, Jon Krakauer, an accomplished climber and the acclaimed journalistand author of Into the Wild.an accomplished climber, went to the Himalayas to report onthe growing commercialization of the planet's highest mountain. Everest has always been a dangerous mountain.From the first British expeditions in the 1920s until 1996, one climber has died for ever 4 who have attainedthe summit. This shocking death toll has NOT put a damper on the burgeoning business of guided ascents,however, in which inexperienced alpinists with alarmingly amateurish skills are ushered up the mountain for a$65,000 fee. To ascend into the thin, frigid air above 26,000 feet - the cruising altitude of a commercial jetliner -is an inherently irrational act. The environment is unimaginably harsh, the margin for error miniscule.Krakauer examines what it is about Everest that has compelled so many people - including himself -to throw caution to the wind, ignore the concern of loved ones, and willingly subject themselves to​ such risk, hardship, and expense.

==========================================​Thursday 2/1​Finish up Keynotes​Presentation evaluationin class. Please don't be the person who doesn't have presentation in the Google drive folder!!Upload to Google Folder that I shared with you. Save in this format: First Name_Last Name_Book Name Everyone will evaluate 4 presentations using THIS RUBRIC.